the pde t fo lnghe e of 2014 was prefaced on the idea that the surge would have created some better environment from which it would make sense we could leave because things would be better. if that promise is wrong and things after the surge are worse than before the surge, if things are not goin to get better by the time we areeto av thhy w stickingith that as still being the time to leave? when the pentagon announced the end of the surge last week, when they announced the surge was over, they talked less about blunting taliban momentum and more abo how the surge helped us tin lots of afghan security forces. in thry, lots of trained afghan security forces is a way afghanistan could get more safe. but right now it's also a way americans get killed. by the afghans we are training and arming. afghan troops a turning around and killing american troops they're supposed to be working with at such a rate now that the traini and joint operatis beeenhe fs eds h. and have only now started to scale back up. that's the circumstances in which 68,000 americans are putting their lives on the line right now w